William Campbell

William Campbell (11 July 1730-4 September 1778) was Governor of Nova Scotia from October 1766 to October 1773, succeeding Montague Wilmot and preceding Benjamin Green, and Governor of South Carolina from 18 June to 15 September 1775, succeeding William Bull II and preceding Henry Laurens. Campbell was mortally wounded at the Battle of Sullivan's Island in 1776, dying two years later.

Biography
William Campbell was born on 11 July 1730, the son of Scottish Whig politician John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll. Campbell served in the Royal Navy in India from 1752 to 1760, and in 1762 he was stationed in North America during the Seven Years' War. In 1766, Campbell was appointed Governor of Nova Scotia, and he married the sister of Continental Congress member Ralph Izard of South Carolina. In 1775, he was sent to govern the state as patriotic sentiment grew there at the time of the American Revolutionary War, and he attempted to crush the patriots by sending pamphlets to back-country residents claiming that the people of Charleston were liars and that the Provincial Congress was treasonous. However, he was forced to flee on a ship and return to England on 15 September 1775 after a popular uprising, and he accompanied Admiral Peter Parker and General Henry Clinton's fleet when it besieged Charleston in 1776 in an attempt to restore British rule to the colony. Campbell was mortally wounded by a splinter on Parker's flagship HMS Bristol, and he died of his wounds in 1778.